Pins and Needles

Closing: October 26, 2024

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Kiln Theatre

269 Kilburn High Road London NW6 7JR London

Market West End

Previews September 19, 2024

Caution: Contains truth, lies and misinformation. You decide.

Rob is putting science and scepticism to the test in his new play. For

research, he speaks to Mary, a mother trying to make the best

decisions for her family, Toby, an angry son who distrusts

institutions, and Edward Jenner, the father of modern vaccinations.

The more he listens, the more he struggles to keep his own

subjectivity off the table, which begs the question – how do you

know who to trust?

Rob Drummond, whose plays are ‘utterly unpredictable’ (The

Stage), explores the politics around vaccines, and the human stories

behind them.

__Assisted Performances:__

Audio Described: 24 October, 7.30pm

Captioned: 21 October, 7.30pm

Relaxed: 19 October, 2.30pm

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FEATURED REVIEWS FOR Pins and Needles

Pins and Needles review – a teasing, tricksy tale of vaccinations, from smallpox to Covid

From: The Guardian By: Kate Wyver Date: 2024-09-27

7 / 10

While the over-explanatory Q&A format allows clarity for each story, the play is strongest when firm opinions take a backseat, allowing murkier, thornier problems to come to the fore. A simmering uncertainty remains from Drummond’s constant, smirking reminder that none of this is wholly trustworthy, but the continual tease of an unreliable narrator ultimately promises more tricksiness than it delivers. Pins and Needles is a sleek story of debate and denial, but it longs for a slightly sharper scratch.

Pins + Needles, Kiln Theatre Review

From: Theatre & Tonic By: Jasmine Date: 2024-09-27

7 / 10

This play is unsettling, meta, often shocking, and incredibly moving, as through the stories of the four characters onstage you drill endlessly into the question of trust, to find doesn’t have the solid sort of answer you might hope for. All we can do, then, is keep talking to each other.

Pins and Needles FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What are the songs in Pins and Needles and what's the order?

First Impressions Why Sing of Skies Above! Mussolini Handicap Public Enemy Number One The General Unveiled We'd Rather Be Right [i] We'd Rather Be Right [ii] The Little Red Schoolhouse Sunday in the Park Dear Beatrice Fairfax Economics I [i] Economics I [ii] Men Awake Lesson in Etiquette F.T.P. Plowed Under What Good Is Love? One Big Union for Two Vassar Girl Finds a Job Four Little Angels of Peace Slumming Party Doin' the Reactionary We've Just Begun Brittania Waives the Rules Papa Lewis, Mama Green I've Got the Nerve to Be in Love The Red Mikado Mene, Mene, Tekel The Harmony Boys [i] The Harmony Boys [ii] Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl It's Better with a Union Man We Sing America Stay Out, Sammy Sitting on Your Status Quo Back to Work Oh, Give Me the Good Old Days G-Man What This Party Needs Lorelei on the Rocks Song of the Ads The Yanks Aren't Coming Room for One Call It Un-American I'm Just Nuts About You The Pluto Boys Hold On to Your Hats, Boys, Here We Go Again History, Eight to the Bar All Alone on the Lone Prairie Cream of Mush [i] Cream of Mush [ii] Paradise Mislaid Poker Players 1+1=1 Man of the Year

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Other Productions of Pins and Needles

1937	Broadway	Original Broadway Production Broadway
1978	Off-Broadway	Off-Broadway Revival Off-Broadway

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